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mendaciousness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mendaciousness

the tendency to tell lies

her memoirs have such an air of pervasive mendaciousness that she seems to have lost all sense of what truth is

Synonyms of mendaciousness

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, falsehood, mendacity, untruthfulness

Words Related to mendaciousness

artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness

Near Antonyms of mendaciousness

honor, incorruptibility

candidness, candor, frankness, good faith, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness

dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness

accuracy, objectivity

authenticity, correctness, genuineness

Antonyms of mendaciousness

honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, verity

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